Summer Kick Off Hoppity

The CataNetwork sites are co-hosting a Summer Kick Off Blog Hop and we hope you’ll join in the fun. We’ll be giving away Big ‘Ol Boxes of books. One box per site. Pictures coming soon.

Summertime is definitely here. Warm weather, kids home from school.

Family vacations 🙂

How about a trip to the beach? And what’s a great way to hang out with the wind in your hair and the sounds of waves crashing in the background?

Reading!

In honor of summer and SensualReads.com re-opening, I’ll be giving away 2 $5 Amazon gift cards to lucky commenters. Just answer the following question (and make sure you leave an email where I can contact you 🙂

Q4U: What is your dream summer destination? Why?

The giveaway ends on June 10th at Midnight, winners will be drawn on the 11th. Good luck and have a great summer!

Btw Amber, I love your blog.
In your summer reads I wanted to tell you to maybe take a moment and check out this author I just found.

I know that you post other authors, and do interviews ect, but I wanted to know if you do fan based recommendation stuff too lol?

I just wanted to let you know about this author I’ve been reading, Alexandria Infante, author of Teaching between Midnight and dawn. I think she is a talented author (her book came out last year, but I only just found it), and the fact that she is Latina in this genre is awesome. In the paranormal field, you don’t see many Latinas, and the ones that you do see, don’t seem to get the reconiztion that they should.

Her book is somewhere between Twilight, Underworld and Interview with the vampire; all based off of Egyptian myths.

I love the fresh new characters, and the fact that her main female character is Latina. I would say to everyone out there, check out her books and her site too. Don’t be put off by the fact that she’s a minority, her work is amazing!

Home. I do not do well in really hot weather and strong sunlight (I do have Transylvanian ancestors ;-0). I prefer to vacation in spring or fall. Of course, when I do travel then, it’s always during an unusual heatwave. England and Ireland in the mid ’80s?!? Yup, that’s when I’m there in May. Juneau in the 90’s…yup, that’s when I was there.

Hi Gale,
I’ve never thought much about Canada, mostly because when I picture it, I also picture snow and I don’t do so good with cold, LOL. I would like to visit it during a cruise, one where they travel up the US & to Canada to watch the whales migrating 🙂

Hi Amber,
My dream summer vacation would be St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. I have family there and haven’t been there since I was a teenager. If I go there now I can do all the things they WOULDN’T let me do when I was young. Like learning to parasail and or surf, go into the bars and have drinks while looking at the gorgeous views etc. LOL
Thanks for being part of the hop and for the chance to win!

The North Shore of Oahu would be my choice. Venice, Italy is a close second. I’ve been to both places and they are gorgeous. The North Shore is closer so I choose that destination. Great people, food and weather.

Hi Amber,
thank you for the chance at such a great giveaway. it’s hard to pick the dream get away for me because there are so many places i would love to go. i think if i had to choose just one it would be Transylvania (now part of Romania). i love the history and forlklore of the country and the people are some of the nicest you will meet any where. i worked for a couple that was from Romania and never met a kinder more care/tougher and harder working man. and then at another job i worked with a women that was from region just outside Transylvania and she said that it is the most beautiful place, she was a wonderful person. She once told me that she was not only proud to be a Romanian but that she was what we would call a gypsy as well. she was very nice and so sweet.

Hi Amber! Thanks for being on the hop! If I get to pick my summer vacation, it would be to stay right here by a pool with a drink in one hand and a book in the other. And NO interruptions!! That would be a dream!
Mel
bournmelissa at hotmail dot com

Hi, Amber!! I hope you have a great summer!
My dream vacation is probably The Bahamas. I have never been there and would love to visit, though Hawaii does sound lovely too. 😉
I am looking forward to Hungerstorm!
Thank you for the giveaway.
trb0917 at gmail.com

Hi! My dream destination would be to go to Ireland. The place is beautiful! Id love to explore the castles, travel the country, check out the men in kilts. lol Thanks for the fun hop and the great giveaway! You have a great night! 🙂
shadowluvs2read(at)gmail(dot)com

My dream summer destination would have to be Australia. I would love to visit Australia because I love their accents and would love to see their wildlife and beautiful nature. Now if I had to stay in the US it would have to be the Grand Canyon. I would love to see the grand Canyon because I would love to hear the silence that I’ve heard it has and see the beauty.
jessangil at gmail dot com
-Jessica

Thank you all so much for stopping by and sharing. One day, I’m going to have the time and the money to travel the world, LOL. Good luck to each of you getting to your dream destination, even if it’s right there at home!

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